Accessories & equipment

Dressing Equipment

Rotary diamond tools are used for CBN grinding wheels and for profile dressing of both vitrified and CBN wheels. A number of dressing devices have been developed to best suit the applications::

Whenever feasible KMT UVA prefers to use a dressing ring attached to, and rotated with the chuck. The dressing ring is diamond plated on the ID and is patented by KMT UVA.

Adapted to the limited available space in the machine KMT UVA has developed fixed and folding dressing devices with compact direct driven dressing spindles with a cup or disc shaped diamond dressing roll.

The dressing spindles can be supplied with an acoustic emission sensor for dressing monitoring. They give higher and more consistent quality plus lower the grinding wheel consumption.

Vitrified grinding wheels are often dressed with a stationary single point dresser, consisting of a diamond tool attached to a fixed or folding dressing arm.

(A profiled grinding wheel is dressed by moving the wheel with the CNC axes during dressing, whereby the nose radius of the dressing diamond must be considered when programming the dressing.)